How to Paint a Painting

Mix paint so it won’t flow, or so it will drip unexpectedly and in the wrong place, or will dry a different colour, or so it cludges or pools.

Choose a brush that doesn’t work, has its bristles all askew, is dried up like a stick, or is a stick, or a grass stalk, or the hair of a dog, or a clump of your own hair bound with string, or paint with the string.

Choose a canvas that has holes in it, is the skin of your lover, or the hide of your ex-lover.

Reblogged this on lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown and commented:
This is the first essay on how to paint that has ever made me both want to paint and think I could, so I have to reblog it. Hope others agree. Judy